my picks for tomorrows dubai marathon geb will win the mens race in 20540, and bezunesh bekele will take the womens in 21959. go bezunesh.
my picks for tomorrows dubai marathon geb will win the mens race in 20540, and bezunesh bekele will take the womens in 21959. go bezunesh.
my prediction is geb with 2:03:43
my prediction is geb with 2:03:43
BEKELE IS RUNNING A MARATHON???????
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BEKELE IS RUNNING A MARATHON???????
absolutely thats why i wrote go bezunesh.
ok, you scared me there.
Doug
Bizu Bekele .. aka China is a monster. she PB'd big time this year and ran 68 for the half marathon. I am friends with some of her friends and they all say that she is one tough little bugger in training.
39 KG's she is under 90 pounds.
But i also think that askale megarsa is out there to surprise everyone. anyone who debuts at 2:24.. will be a huge star.
I expect her to make an olympic team.. Bizu needs to step down to the 10k.. she can make that team.
i wish bezunesh the best and if you see her tell her douglas burke said hello, and i hope she got what was sent to her on time. and i will wear the ethiopian uniform she sent me and go to an ethiopian restaurant tommorrow to wish her good luck.
2:03:43 that sounds right
Just plain foolish. He will run 2:07:14
What did you predict for him in Berlin? I say 2:04:36, not quite but a superb effort. The million dollars stays safe.
The course does look to be VERY VERY FAST. Completely flast, and only one turn from 5km to 35km, and that's the 180-degree turn around at half-way.
It is scheduled to be 60 degrees farenheit during the race, with a light wind out of the east at 9mph. SLIGHTLY on the warm side.
I am beginning to think that this could happen. I'll give him a 50/50 chance to break the WR at this point.
Race begins at 7am local time, or in about 4 hours.
Do a little research, guys!!
Look at the course map on the Dubai marathon site. VERY fast. Very few turns and completely flat.
Weather right now is near-perfect at 60 degrees.
Right now it's all about the pacing. If they give him a perfect 1:02:15, evenly paced, I say he gets it.
My prediction 2:04:17.
Jason
MAYEROFF wrote:
I'll give him a 50/50 chance to break the WR at this point.
Race begins at 7am local time, or in about 4 hours.
I give him a 5% chance of breaking the record. I give him a 45% chance of not finishing. I give him a 25 percent chance of running slower than 2:06:30
The way I see it wrote:
MAYEROFF wrote:I'll give him a 50/50 chance to break the WR at this point.
Race begins at 7am local time, or in about 4 hours.
I give him a 5% chance of breaking the record. I give him a 45% chance of not finishing. I give him a 25 percent chance of running slower than 2:06:30
You're an idiot.
2:03:57, with a huge grin and a hard kick to go under 2:04
martin fagan is running the race tomorrow looking for the olympic standard of 2:15, after his plans to run the houston marathon were thrown off course due to customs. will he get it? hope he does.
lila wrote:
after his plans to run the houston marathon were thrown off course due to customs.
Customs? You mean immigration?
What I see with Geb is that he still hasn't pushed himself to the breaking point effort-wise in the marathon, on a good day. You look at Salazar's 1981 NYC finish, and he was DYING t the end.....same with Boston 82. If Geb ever pushed himself to that sort of self-imposed pain----why wouldn't he go under 2:04, or even 2:03 on an ideal day? In all his great, fast races---he's finished smiling and relatively fresh....what sort of times could we expect if the man made himself really hurt?
I think Geb can push himself to the limit and still cross the finish line smiling, as long as he has at least a 10-meter gap on his closest competitor.